Microsoft Flight released!

[Nzeddy]

QUOTE (wildmanfiveone @ Apr 25 2012,11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The question is will this one have a vc?

No. https://microsoftflight.com/en-US/marketplace/#5

[IslandBoy77]

QUOTE (AndrewJamez @ Mar 6 2012,6:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Apart from the nice lighting and clouds, it looks just like some orbx scenery. Still no decent land/water transition and the inland water has the same effect as at sea. Would have been nice if MS had worked a bit harder in those area's.

I think of MS Flight as FSX SP3... And I totally agree: time to get serious about representing river (and lake) water properly, as well as having proper Outerra-class shorelines / transitions. Flight is still stuck in 2005 / 06 programming / thinking for its visuals overall, methinks.

[Ian Warren]

Enda the day its prity pathetic , not a cuppa coffee i'd buy , no tealeaves in the tea , no fizzy in the Fanta .. and only for the Kiddies ...

What strikes me is the hype .. they same was done for all previous MS Flightsims , then the last FSX with so many patch's then to finish it of Acceleration - no FS had this but get all the addons and fix's it equals this latest , already mentioned - the superb A2A PMDG , you won't see those in Flight if ever but for a long time .. then realize you will have to pay for then ..

Another thing people don't realize to get preformmance requires dollars so in the larger picture P3D would be the best scope but yet they are so limited with addons , could you imagine the screenshot competition or even the the thread , i even still go back to FS9 just because in a theme you aquire a model .

Flight is a dead fish they make sprout wings in 5 to 10 years time but genie really losted the plot with this version .

[AndrewJamez]

I'm thinking P3D as well. Apparently most addons work. The problem is the Exec files and master folders are a different name so the FSX installers dont see them. All that is required is you have a base installation of FSX so after you install the addon you just transfer the installed files into P3D. Most people are having great sucsess using this method.
I'm sticking with FSX for now and I forsee a problem once P3D reaches V2.0 with dx11 support. How will any current addons, P3D or FSX work with that??

[AdrianPetford]

QUOTE (AndrewJamez @ Apr 25 2012,8:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm thinking P3D as well. Apparently most addons work. The problem is the Exec files and master folders are a different name so the FSX installers dont see them. All that is required is you have a base installation of FSX so after you install the addon you just transfer the installed files into P3D. Most people are having great sucsess using this method.

Another method is to have a copy of your fsx.exe (or one of prepar3d.exe renamed to fsx.exe) in your P3D directory as the install target. This will work with installers where you can select the path. For installers with a fixed path, alter your FSX registry entry so it points to the P3D folder (several applications are available which can add or change an FSX path in this way).


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